Recipe: Delicious Pesto Sauce

Recipe: Delicious Pesto Sauce Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Pesto Sauce. Share The Italian-Inspired Alfredo & Bruschetta Pasta Sauce From Classico. The recipes were Easy Pesto by Rebecca Jane Thompson, Pesto Sauce by Sara, and Simple Garlic and Basil Pesto by FuzzyGreenMonkey. It had a nice nutty flavor because of the toasted almonds.

Add both cheeses and salt; blend until smooth.

Homemade pesto sauce is so easy to make and tastes fresher than the purchased kind.

This aromatic herb paste is traditionally made with only a handful of simple ingredients: fresh basil, garlic, Parmesan cheese, pine nuts, and olive oil.

You can cook Pesto Sauce using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pesto Sauce

1. It’s of pesto.

2. Prepare of garlic.

3. It’s of purple basil.

4. Prepare of toasted pine nuts.

5. It’s of plus 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil.

6. You need of chopped shallot.

7. You need of parmesan cheese.

8. It’s of asiago cheese.

9. You need of kosher salt.

10. It’s of white pepper.

I like to serve the pesto over butter gnocchi with an extra sprinkle of Parmesan cheese.

Gnocchi are light little Italian potato dumplings, which are available in Italian grocery stores and cook up in mere minutes.

The pesto is also delicious tossed with penne or other types of pasta. —Sue A.

Jurack The key to making creamy pesto is to add the ingredients to the food processor in the right order to ensure that the nuts break down to a fine paste before the greens have a chance to turn brown Use basic basil pesto as a pasta sauce, or thin it out with a little olive oil to drizzle it over steak, chicken, fish, pizza or tomato salad The mint-pistachio variation is inspired by the chef Travis.

Pesto Sauce step by step

1. Toast pine nuts first. In a small pan over medium heat place in pine nuts. Cook for just a moment or so, shaking the pan or stirring. They are done when you just start the smell the nuts and are a very light brown..

2. In a food processor, add the shallot, cheeses, basil, garlic, salt and pepper. Turn on low speed and drizzle in the oil. Blend ingredients until no chunks of garlic or cheese show. Under 30 seconds..

3. Heres your pesto. Add this over cooked pasta or I love to top grilled chicken with this..

4. This is good for 1/2 pound of dried pasta. Store in an airtight container up to several days in the refrigerator..

5. Recipe by taylor68too. Inspired by my friend Petra..

Pesto is an Italian-born sauce that can be made using either a mortar and pestle or (a much more modern approach) in a food processor.

It is made up mostly of basil, pine nuts, and Parmesan cheese.

Garlic is also a key ingredient.

Pesto also works well as a base for pizza (instead of tomato sauce), whisked into scrambled eggs, thinned out with mayonnaise for a french fry dip, added to sour cream for a chip dip, or spread on crusty bread for a sandwich.

I took a couple of my favorite recipes and combined them into these delicious hors d'oeuvres.